From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 06:47:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D7816A4CE; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:47:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout2.pacific.net.au (mailout2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D293D43D1D; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:47:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from mailproxy1.pacific.net.au (mailproxy1.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.86])i0TEl05O012376; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 01:47:00 +1100 Received: from gamplex.bde.org (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) i0TEkxt4027415; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 01:46:59 +1100 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 01:46:58 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Elof In-Reply-To: <200401281158.i0SBw9eb052538@www.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20040130014201.R4523@gamplex.bde.org> References: <200401281158.i0SBw9eb052538@www.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/62026: COM-ports disabled in BIOS = FreeBSD Freeze X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:47:04 -0000 On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Elof wrote: > >Fix: > This is a problem that is manually introduced. My hopes are that you could add some funtions that test wether any serial port exist before trying to use it. Then you could avoid the freeze and print/log a warning. There are already lots of existence checks. Some BIOSes apparently "disable" com ports in such away that the existence checks pass. Please include boot (-v) messages (just the sio parts) so that this can be debugged. Bruce